Rooney played the full 90 minutes at Old Trafford and was one of the stand-out players as Mourinho saw his chances of luring the 27-year-old to Stamford Bridge slip away.

‘We have to speak but I think this club must be a very special club because in every club in the world when a player wants to leave they don’t support him, they give him a hard time,’ said the Blues boss.

‘So I think this is a real special club with real special fans and I think at this moment he [Rooney] might want to stay, and if he says that we will be the first to respect that.

‘If he doesn’t want to leave we need to know.’

Chelsea lined up without a recognised centre-forward tonight, with Andre Schurrle selected ahead of Fernando Torres and Romelu Lukaku.

But Mourinho said he needed more from his attacking quartet of Schurrle, Een Hazard, Oscar and Kevin De Bruyne.

Jose Mourinho was not impressed by his players’ passing (Picture: Getty)

‘I think the result is fair, nobody did enough to be better than the opponent,’ he added.

‘I think we controlled the game for most of the time. For a match at Old Trafford we didn’t have real problems.

‘But to go from defensive situations to attacking situations was not the best, we lost simple passes and made lots of mistakes. In terms of attack we didn’t give what we could or what we should.

‘I told the players before the game we play to win, but if we don’t win we don’t lose and I think they understood that.

‘If I look at the video I’ll find seven or eight easy passes we got wrong. And it was the same for Manchester United. Neither side wanted to lose.

‘We had four kids – four babies – in attack and to come here is a good experience for them.’